Computer
Recycling Research. A widely cited 1991 study predicted that nearly
150 million personal computers (PCs) would be sent to landfills by
2005. This study, produced at Carnegie Mellon University, takes into
consideration newer end-of-life disposition options now available, and
reconsiders the general premise of the original study.

EPA
Resource Conservation Challenge is a major national effort to find
flexible, yet more protective ways to conserve our valuable resources
through waste reduction and energy recovery activities that will
improve public health and the environment.

The World Computer
Exchange provides disadvantaged youth with access to computers and
the Internet. We collect working computers which are too often
discarded and place them with educational organisations in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America. We are currently working with 30 partner
organisations and 68 potential partners in 36 countries who have
signed-up 700 schools and centres with 300,000 youth.

Survey
of IT Purchasing. A survey of corporate purchasers undertaken by
SustainIT and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply has
shown that they are in the dark about the environmental impacts
associated with computer products.

The Chemical Scorecard can
help you to find out what chemicals are being released into your
neighborhood environment by manufacturing plants, which of these
chemicals are potentially the most harmful, and what companies are
responsible. Use our maps to see how close these polluting facilities
are to your home, your workplace, or your children's schools. Published
by the Environmental Defense Fund.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
SVTC is a diverse grassroots coalition that engages in research,
advocacy, and organizing around the environmental and human health
problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech electronics
industry. Resources on the site include the San Francisco Bay Area
Computer Recycling & Reuse Directory and Maps, Toxic Hotspots
interactive maps, news, case studies and other publications.

The Right To Know Network.
Provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences
on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. With the
information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories
and their environmental effects; analyze reinvestment by banks in their
communities; and assess people and communities affected.

Life Cycle Assessment
Links. Life Cycle Assessment is an objective process to evaluate
the environmental burdens associated with a product, process, or
activity by identifying energy and materials used and wastes released
to the environment, and to evaluate and implement opportunities to
affect environmental improvements. This collection of links is slightly
outdated but still useful.

Green Design
Institute. The Green Design Institute is an interdisciplinary
research effort to make an impact on environmental quality through
green design. The central idea of the institute is to form partnerships
with companies, government agencies and foundations to develop
pioneering design, management, manufacturing, and regulatory processes
that can improve environmental quality and product quality while
enhancing economic development.

CERES is a non-profit coalition
of investors, public pension funds, foundations, labor unions, and
environmental, religious, and public-interest groups, working in
cooperation with companies toward the common goal of corporate
environmental responsibility worldwide.

Making
the Net Work: sustainable development in a digital society. The
book shows how the growth in networks and the increased availability of
information is affecting our lives and our environment. It argues that
in both the public and private sectors need to recognize the greater
complexity of a wired world in order to find the solutions that will
produce a more sustainable and harmonious one. Introduction and chapter
available for download from Digital Europe; also see the summary
report.

ResponsibleIT Standard. ResponsibleIT is a set of guidelines to
help combine the performance and efficiency benefits of technology with
socially responsible and environmentally sustainable practices. ifPeople has built the Guidelines
for ResponsibleIT on best practices, industry research, and the
extension of social responsibility to business processes that often
fail to incorporate such practices. Available for download.

Green Seal. An NGO that
works with manufacturers, industry sectors, purchasing groups, and
governments at all levels to "green" the production and purchasing
chain. Among the tools Green Seal uses are product certification;
purchasing guidance, including product recommendations; special
projects and evaluations of products and purchasing; and policy
recommendations.

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Why did you join CPSR?

... As an IT professional I want to show my support and interest in areas where IT can better society at large and the that [sic] we as technology professionals have a responsibility to properly promote technology especially in areas neglected.